Progress would be wonderful - if only it would stop.
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All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man!
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It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them.
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The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the mental illnesses, and the mentally ill person has only one.
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